Mel Grunau

I work in a variety of styles ranging from abstract to impressionistic to realistic. I also use multiple mediums, oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel. I have taught watercolor painting for over 30 years. No matter what medium I employ, my tendency is to start in soft washy tones of color. Many of my paintings utilize thin collage material, which I generally try to disguise so that hidden images appear to the viewer over time. As a retired architect, buildings and industrial structures quite often appear in my paintings. A patron once noted, regarding an abstract: a love of drawing is evident in my paintings. That is the kind of statement that keeps my going.